Tokyo Medical University reduced the test scores of women, according to a Japanese newspaper.Credit...Ayaka Aizawa/Kyodo News, via Associated Press A Japanese medical school has been accused of manipulating the test scores of female applicants for years to artificially depress the number of women in the student body, a scandal that has triggered sharp criticism. The revelations have highlighted in
Author Ursula Le Guin at home with her cat, Lorenzo, in 1996. The writer’s “pleasant duty,” she said, is to ply the reader’s imagination with “the best and purest nourishment that it can absorb.”Credit...Jill Krementz, All Rights Reserved Ursula K. Le Guin, the immensely popular author who brought literary depth and a tough-minded feminist sensibility to science fiction and fantasy with books like
Japan’s Dennis Rodman? An Ex-Wrestler, Politician and 32-Time Guest of North Korea Antonio Inoki, a 74-year-old lawmaker, was once one of Japan’s best-known professional wrestlers. He says he wants to establish peace with North Korea “through sports diplomacy.”Credit...Kazuhiro Yokozeki for The New York Times TOKYO — Forty-one years ago, Antonio Inoki, one of Japan’s most popular professional wres
SANA, Yemen – After two and a half years of war, little is functioning in Yemen. Repeated bombings have crippled bridges, hospitals and factories. Many doctors and civil servants have gone unpaid for more than a year. Malnutrition and poor sanitation have made the Middle Eastern country vulnerable to diseases that most of the world has confined to the history books. In just three months, cholera h
Hideto Kijima of Japan spoke to the news media in Osaka on Wednesday. He said the staff of Vanilla Air told him he could not board a small aircraft because it lacked wheelchair-accessible boarding ramps or elevators.Credit...Yuki Sato/Kyodo News, via Associated Press TOKYO — A Japanese airline has apologized to a disabled rights activist, who is partly paralyzed, after it tried to prevent him from
Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi defense minister. In a televised interview on Tuesday, he suggested that the strained relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran may worsen, increasing instability in the region.Credit...Jonathan Ernst/Reuters BEIRUT, Lebanon — Saudi Arabia’s powerful deputy crown prince slammed the door Tuesday on the prospect of dialogue with Iran, the kingdom’s regional rival,
President Salva Kiir of South Sudan visiting Sudan People’s Liberation Army soldiers at the military hospital in the capital city of Juba last month.Credit...Reuters Kampala, Uganda — Everyone agrees that South Sudan “stands on the brink of an all-out ethnic civil war,” as Yasmin Sooka, of the United Nations Human Rights Council, put it. But there is no consensus on how to move forward. The debate
How the election and Donald Trump’s victory looks to Opinion writers. People filled the overflow section of the Javits Center where Hillary Clinton is holding her election night event in New York City. Credit Todd Heisler/The New York Times Paul Krugman: Our Unknown Country By Paul Krugman Comment 2016-11-08T22:58:01-05:00 November 8, 2016 10:58 PM ET We still don’t know who will win the electoral
Nadia Murad, Yazidi Woman Who Survived ISIS Captivity, Wins Human Rights Prize Nadia Murad, a former prisoner of the Islamic State, spoke after being awarded the Vaclav Havel Human Rights Prize at the Council of Europe on Monday in Strasbourg, France.Credit...Patrick Seeger/European Pressphoto Agency Fighters for the Islamic State abducted a young Yazidi woman named Nadia Murad, her siblings and t
CAIRO — Close allies and Arab powerhouses Egypt and Saudi Arabia are having their first public spat since Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi took office two years ago, a quarrel over Syria that points to a wider, but mostly muted, divergence in the handling by Cairo and Riyadh of regional issues. The two countries have gone to great lengths to shield their differences from the public eye, of
Sunni fighters gathering this month in Shirqat, Iraq.Credit...Reuters WASHINGTON — Iraq’s prime minister, Haider al-Abadi, has said that by the end of the year Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, will be liberated from the Islamic State’s control. As of this month, Mr. Abadi, a Shiite, has had two years to rebuild the Iraqi Army with the support of an international coalition. Unfortunately, the ins
The story of more than a decade of war, terror and revolution in the Middle East, seen through the eyes of six people whose lives were changed forever. Fractured Lands: How the Arab World Came Apart PART Fractured Lands Fractured Lands PART I: ORIGINS PART I I PART II: THE IRAQ WAR PART II II PART III: ARAB SPRING PART III III PART IV: ISIS RISING PART IV IV PART V: EXODUS PART V V This is a story
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS JULY 25, 2016, 3:54 P.M. E.D.T. RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — Five Saudi border guards were killed in clashes along the Yemen border and two Saudi pilots died when their Apache helicopter crashed inside Yemen on Tuesday in one of the deadliest days for the kingdom's troops in months. Saudi Arabia's Interior Ministry said in a statement the border guards were killed in an eight-hou
リリース、障害情報などのサービスのお知らせ
最新の人気エントリーの配信
処理を実行中です
j次のブックマーク
k前のブックマーク
lあとで読む
eコメント一覧を開く
oページを開く